Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. SocialBookmarking. MORE

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, the Web has become more social. 2002) The Network Society. MORE

So too are our personal learning networks. Such systems are woefully inadequate to meet our personal knowledge needs in this fast-paced network era. Sharing knowledge, using any number of media that fit our personal needs, work styles, and professional socialnetworks. MORE

Show me what others are interested in, as with socialbookmarks like Diigo and Delicious. link to your blog and bookmarks, people in your network, links to documents you frequently share, members of your network. MORE

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. SocialBookmarking. MORE

SocialBookmarkingSocialNetworking Wikis RSSAs background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. MORE

This week we looked at SocialNetworks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around socialnetworks for learning. Starting with SocialNetworking was a blessing and a curse. Socialnetworks have a tendency to be a bit messy. Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in socialnetworks. How do we do this in the socialnetwork environment? MORE

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My SocialNetworks « "A Technology Flip Test: Introducing Channels in a World of Platforms" (Andrew McAfee) | Main | The Pentagon Channel - Embracing Video Big Time » September 01, 2007 "Object-Centered Sociality" or What is Really at the Heart of SocialNetworks I couldve sworn I had posted about this before but I cant find it.but talk about old.the spur for this post is from 2005! MORE

I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. Hasn't eBay had socialnetworking features for a long time? And doesn't Flickr (images), del.icio.us (bookmarks), etc. all have a socialnetworking aspect to them? The point is that its probably natural for lots of sites to have socialnetworking type features and functions for visitors. MORE

At this point, I also "serendipitous-ly" stumbled upon a couple of conversations recently that touched upon lurking (this is why I love social media). Lurking and its role in communities has been on the forefront of my mind for the past few days. MORE

So forget about trying to “know everything; instead, build your network of knowledge sources , and access them whenever you need them. In a previous article , I provided the following examples of potential information sources that the learner could incorporate into their personal learning network: Socialbookmarks. Social and professional networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Instructivism is dead. MORE

Siemens describes connectivism as “the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organisation theories. If we view chaos through the lens of Network Theory , we see the universe as a massive, complex network. MORE

The topics on SocialNetworking and Learning 2.0 Tony Karrer spotted Commoncraft's interesting presentations. I find the snippets from Commoncraft very illustrative of the "3-Minute e-Learning" application points. They are short and wacky but effective. MORE

There are many social web tools that I have adopted into my every day practice. Over the next few days I want to list my top social web tools (my Web feats) - the ones I probably couldn't do without. Here's the first in the series: SocialBookmarking. MORE

eLearning Learning Hot List June 1, 2009 to June 12, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. World Part 2 - Social Enterprise Blog , June 6, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave? yes, they went there - WISE Pedagogy , June 1, 2009 Time Spent - The Learning Circuits Blog , June 1, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals. MORE

Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. SocialBookmarking. The ability of someone within an Intranet or Internet to mark or tag a blog entry, a link or an article within the network as important or interesting to them. SocialNetwork. MORE

His site, visualcomplexity.com is a great resource - a great compilation of a ton of resources related to visualizing complex networks. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.usdel.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.usMORE

I have used the socialbookmarking service delicious on a fairly superficial level up to now, I would say. . I was interested in how I could share my links and when I was a manager of 12 trainers/instructional designers, the benefits of a pooled set of favourites/bookmarks, tagged and annotated made me salivate. Now I’m ready to take it to the next level and really try to embrace the socialness of it. Now to decide: Who should be in my network? MORE

Your PLN (personal or professional learning network) is the community of people you interact with and learn from on a regular basis. Well, there is a growing range of useful social media tools you can use to track down what you need. delicious hashtags social media Twitter Diigo MORE

SOCIAL TOOLS. Social & Collaboration Spaces. Public SocialNetworks. Curation & SocialBookmarking Tools. Social learningLooking for some new ideas for tools to support your work? Here are the links to the pages in my Directory of Learning & Performance Tools , which lists over 1,000 tools in 4 main categories as shown below. Want to add or amend a tool’s details? You can do so here. What are your favourite tools for learning? MORE

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER PAPPAS (Founder, The eLearning Industry’s Network): Christopher Pappas is the founder of The eLearning Industry’s Network. In addition, you are also a Social Media Marketing (SMM) professional. MORE

Twitter - microblogging Twitter is good for networking with colleagues, use and follow hashtags like #lrnchat. Diigo - or any other socialbookmarker Diigo is very important to keep track off your online sources. An alternative to this bookmark tool is delicious. If you have your own Yammer network you can easily build an external network in which people with different email accounts can exchange. MORE

Two weeks ago Jane Hart wrote an article titled, Social Learning: to be or not to be? , in which Jane expresses her dislike of the term Social Learning (big S, big L). That being said, I believe Jane’s first misstep occurs when she uses the term Social Learning (big S, big L). MORE

There are a multitude of interaction methods in an eLearning environment to promote social learning. Research has repeatedly indicated the enhanced productivity associated with social learning. This is the most popular method of teamwork in an social learning environment. MORE

Yesterday I published the first of my Web feats - the socialbookmarking tool Delicious. It also has a place in professional life and in the spirit of the social webm, has become something I do naturally each time I create a new slideshow. MORE

Matthew 5:13 (New Testament) The Delicious socialbookmarking site used to be one of my favourite social media tools. That also has a compounding influence on the personal networks users have built up of course. socialbookmarking delicious AVOS social media Diigo MORE

Basic 2-3 minutes video on " What is SocialNetworking " - By CommonCraft What is SocialNetworking? What is SocialBookmarking?What The Technical Side of SocialNetworking 2-3 minute video Outsourced Brain P.L.E. Welcome to the Session. MORE

Sent to you by brent via Google Reader: Online Networking in Courses via Experiencing E-Learning by Christy Tucker on Aug 15, 2007 These are my notes from the presentation MySpace is not YourSpace: The Promise and Pitfalls of Online SocialNetworking at the Conference for Distance Learning and Teaching last week. Models don't consider all social and cultural aspects. Showed using del.icio.us Here's a thought! MORE

Everyone and Social Signals The second very important group is Everyone. We don't divulge all the details of how this works, but basically we are looking for social signals that indicate that someone thinks this content is good stuff. See also An Aha Moment - del.icio.usMORE

or the ‘social web’. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. It is a complex network of dynamic resources that we all acknowledge is constantly changing to adapt to the growing demand for entertainment, communication and access to knowledge. MORE

Social SharePoint 2010, eRoom/Documentum. Social Mentoring/ coaching. Social Websites? Social Books? Social Collaborative projects. Social Wikis. Social Blogs (written/ video). Social Micro-blogging. SocialSocialbookmarking, ranking/rating/tagging. MORE

This is a good definition of what we need from an open layer that allows a transportable, open social graph that we can leverage across various applications. Socialnetworking sits on top of this and provides interfaces that allow us to interact. MORE

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, socialbookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) This forms a big network of people linked first through content and eventually directly (in person or via socialnetworking). Nancy raises the question of the fact that traditional online communities were bounded by the tool and the new big network is not contained within the tool. MORE

In this article, I’m featuring a wonderful interview with successful social media expert, Jane Hart. She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. You can read more from Jane at her blog, Social Media in Learning. MORE

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. SocialBookmarking.

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. SocialBookmarking.

The topics on SocialNetworking and Learning 2.0 Tony Karrer spotted Commoncraft's interesting presentations. I find the snippets from Commoncraft very illustrative of the "3-Minute e-Learning" application points. They are short and wacky but effective.

SocialBookmarkingSocialNetworking Wikis RSSAs background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below.

Siemens describes connectivism as “the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organisation theories. If we view chaos through the lens of Network Theory , we see the universe as a massive, complex network.

Sent to you by brent via Google Reader: Online Networking in Courses via Experiencing E-Learning by Christy Tucker on Aug 15, 2007 These are my notes from the presentation MySpace is not YourSpace: The Promise and Pitfalls of Online SocialNetworking at the Conference for Distance Learning and Teaching last week. Models don't consider all social and cultural aspects. Showed using del.icio.us Here's a thought!

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, the Web has become more social. 2002) The Network Society.

Matthew 5:13 (New Testament) The Delicious socialbookmarking site used to be one of my favourite social media tools. That also has a compounding influence on the personal networks users have built up of course. socialbookmarking delicious AVOS social media Diigo

There are many social web tools that I have adopted into my every day practice. Over the next few days I want to list my top social web tools (my Web feats) - the ones I probably couldn't do without. Here's the first in the series: SocialBookmarking.

I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. Hasn't eBay had socialnetworking features for a long time? And doesn't Flickr (images), del.icio.us (bookmarks), etc. all have a socialnetworking aspect to them? The point is that its probably natural for lots of sites to have socialnetworking type features and functions for visitors.

This is a good definition of what we need from an open layer that allows a transportable, open social graph that we can leverage across various applications. Socialnetworking sits on top of this and provides interfaces that allow us to interact.

Siemens describes connectivism as “the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organisation theories. If we view chaos through the lens of Network Theory , we see the universe as a massive, complex network.

Sent to you by brent via Google Reader: Online Networking in Courses via Experiencing E-Learning by Christy Tucker on Aug 15, 2007 These are my notes from the presentation MySpace is not YourSpace: The Promise and Pitfalls of Online SocialNetworking at the Conference for Distance Learning and Teaching last week. Models don't consider all social and cultural aspects. Showed using del.icio.us Here's a thought!

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, the Web has become more social. 2002) The Network Society.

This week we looked at SocialNetworks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around socialnetworks for learning. Starting with SocialNetworking was a blessing and a curse. Socialnetworks have a tendency to be a bit messy. Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in socialnetworks. How do we do this in the socialnetwork environment?

Twitter - microblogging Twitter is good for networking with colleagues, use and follow hashtags like #lrnchat. Diigo - or any other socialbookmarker Diigo is very important to keep track off your online sources. An alternative to this bookmark tool is delicious. If you have your own Yammer network you can easily build an external network in which people with different email accounts can exchange.

So too are our personal learning networks. Such systems are woefully inadequate to meet our personal knowledge needs in this fast-paced network era. Sharing knowledge, using any number of media that fit our personal needs, work styles, and professional socialnetworks.

SOCIAL TOOLS. Social & Collaboration Spaces. Public SocialNetworks. Curation & SocialBookmarking Tools. Social learningLooking for some new ideas for tools to support your work? Here are the links to the pages in my Directory of Learning & Performance Tools , which lists over 1,000 tools in 4 main categories as shown below. Want to add or amend a tool’s details? You can do so here. What are your favourite tools for learning?

Yesterday I published the first of my Web feats - the socialbookmarking tool Delicious. It also has a place in professional life and in the spirit of the social webm, has become something I do naturally each time I create a new slideshow.

eLearning Learning Hot List June 1, 2009 to June 12, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. World Part 2 - Social Enterprise Blog , June 6, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave? yes, they went there - WISE Pedagogy , June 1, 2009 Time Spent - The Learning Circuits Blog , June 1, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, socialbookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) This forms a big network of people linked first through content and eventually directly (in person or via socialnetworking). Nancy raises the question of the fact that traditional online communities were bounded by the tool and the new big network is not contained within the tool.

Two weeks ago Jane Hart wrote an article titled, Social Learning: to be or not to be? , in which Jane expresses her dislike of the term Social Learning (big S, big L). That being said, I believe Jane’s first misstep occurs when she uses the term Social Learning (big S, big L).

At this point, I also "serendipitous-ly" stumbled upon a couple of conversations recently that touched upon lurking (this is why I love social media). Lurking and its role in communities has been on the forefront of my mind for the past few days.

So forget about trying to “know everything; instead, build your network of knowledge sources , and access them whenever you need them. In a previous article , I provided the following examples of potential information sources that the learner could incorporate into their personal learning network: Socialbookmarks. Social and professional networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Instructivism is dead.

Basic 2-3 minutes video on " What is SocialNetworking " - By CommonCraft What is SocialNetworking? What is SocialBookmarking?What The Technical Side of SocialNetworking 2-3 minute video Outsourced Brain P.L.E. Welcome to the Session.

There are a multitude of interaction methods in an eLearning environment to promote social learning. Research has repeatedly indicated the enhanced productivity associated with social learning. This is the most popular method of teamwork in an social learning environment.

His site, visualcomplexity.com is a great resource - a great compilation of a ton of resources related to visualizing complex networks. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.usdel.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us

Your PLN (personal or professional learning network) is the community of people you interact with and learn from on a regular basis. Well, there is a growing range of useful social media tools you can use to track down what you need. delicious hashtags social media Twitter Diigo

I have used the socialbookmarking service delicious on a fairly superficial level up to now, I would say. . I was interested in how I could share my links and when I was a manager of 12 trainers/instructional designers, the benefits of a pooled set of favourites/bookmarks, tagged and annotated made me salivate. Now I’m ready to take it to the next level and really try to embrace the socialness of it. Now to decide: Who should be in my network?

Show me what others are interested in, as with socialbookmarks like Diigo and Delicious. link to your blog and bookmarks, people in your network, links to documents you frequently share, members of your network.

In this article, I’m featuring a wonderful interview with successful social media expert, Jane Hart. She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. You can read more from Jane at her blog, Social Media in Learning.

Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. SocialBookmarking. The ability of someone within an Intranet or Internet to mark or tag a blog entry, a link or an article within the network as important or interesting to them. SocialNetwork.

Everyone and Social Signals The second very important group is Everyone. We don't divulge all the details of how this works, but basically we are looking for social signals that indicate that someone thinks this content is good stuff. See also An Aha Moment - del.icio.us

or the ‘social web’. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. It is a complex network of dynamic resources that we all acknowledge is constantly changing to adapt to the growing demand for entertainment, communication and access to knowledge.

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My SocialNetworks « "A Technology Flip Test: Introducing Channels in a World of Platforms" (Andrew McAfee) | Main | The Pentagon Channel - Embracing Video Big Time » September 01, 2007 "Object-Centered Sociality" or What is Really at the Heart of SocialNetworks I couldve sworn I had posted about this before but I cant find it.but talk about old.the spur for this post is from 2005!

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER PAPPAS (Founder, The eLearning Industry’s Network): Christopher Pappas is the founder of The eLearning Industry’s Network. In addition, you are also a Social Media Marketing (SMM) professional.

Social SharePoint 2010, eRoom/Documentum. Social Mentoring/ coaching. Social Websites? Social Books? Social Collaborative projects. Social Wikis. Social Blogs (written/ video). Social Micro-blogging. SocialSocialbookmarking, ranking/rating/tagging.